What finally prompted you to take flying lessons?

EDR wrote:


Reading Rich Bach's book, "THE GIFT OF WINGS".
I had been skydiving for eight years and was tired of just going up and
down. I was 26, single, had the time, had the money, so I did it.

According to my parents and my sister, I always wanted to fly. I'd
forgotten about it, though, because of time and because I considered it
unfair to my folks who'd lost a pair of very close friends in a GA accident
in the 80s.

But a friend had just achieved his PPL in 98 or 99, and took me on a flight
from CDW to BDR and back with a quick run down and up the Hudson exclusion
zone. I put the story and pictures from the flight up on a web site.

I realized I needed more material. So here I am, almost 400 hours and an
instrument rating later...and with no time for the poor web site.

- Andrew